12.21.2007 | 5:48 pm | Regional
The sky over Hyde Park, Debenhs on Oxford St and an English memorabilia store
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London Continues
Some of the local pubs in our area there are soooooo many, this really is not a pub nation
Our apartment lounge, and our very tidy bedroom - remember I share with two other girls and the view of our lovely Osterley Gardens
The local houses in our area - compare them with the houses in Notting hill, a picture of myself and the sun coming through our bedroom window
The local chapel cemetry, the Swans on the canal and another canal shot
One of the many many pubs in our local area, the chruch in Kensington it takes 45 minutes to get there on the tubeen and another pub in the local area
Can you see all the houses all together, the National Science Museum and more houses all together
The local canal walk that I love to walk, the thing that lets water rise and fall and Angel
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Look at that car its soo small thats what they are all like here, the sunset and me and Angel on the tube
Thanks to everyone for your . It is not so important to have from fily and friends especially when you are half way around the world - its very comforting to know you are remembered especially when you feel alittle lonely. Anyway London is not nice. Its such a crazy city. Where we live we have a gorgeous little canal with river folk and little canal boats - so quaint and homely, very wind and the willows ish. Angel has been too cool for school, she has been such a great help and friend here and its been very cool. I had a job in a shoe store - ha ha funny: ) But it just wasn’t right for me. I quite use to living here now. I was asked if I was Iranian the other day? Even when we were in the Middle East people would ask if I was Middle Eastern and when I lived in Taiwan and I had black straight hair people would mistaken me for being Taiwanese. I would make the perfect spy, I think I would fit into anywhere, the only problem is not I only know how to speak English and terrible Chinese. Anyway I was walking down the main street near where we live and I counted so many pubs. So here I in London and its going OK. Life is not really very warped for me at the moment I’m not sure what is not right and wrong for me at the moment. I feel very quietly seeking more out of life, but then I wonder if I expecting too much? But regardless of how I feel at the moment, I do love and appreciate everything I do have and the things I have been able to do. Some times even our best plans for ourselves dont work out and often changing them leads to something you need and want in your life and as Carrie says :
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12.21.2007 | 5:37 pm | Sports
If your pitcher throws in the upper 80s, and there’s a guy to hits the ball the other way lot, he’s not going to hit it as much the other way. Those are the kinds of things you have to consider. Just because his chart shows his pattern is not some way, there are still a lot of little things you need to consider.
(MBB): (When you’re playing Center) Are you looking at the catcher’s signs?
(GP): No. I can see where the catcher is not setting up & you have an idea. Whereas, if you’re playing a left-handed hitter and he (normally) hits the ball to left-center field but the catcher moves inside, you keep the idea, “he might pull this ball. You have to been ready to go either way. You don’t necessarily lean, because what of the pitcher misses his spot?
So there are all kinds of variables when playing centerfield.
I always say “Do what you see, not what you think”.
MBB: You’re coaching outfielders now, right?
(GP): Yes.piccolo bass string
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MBB: And so you try to get your outfielders to disengage their minds and just react.
(GP): That’s right.
{SNIP}
(GP): You were asking me before if stealing home runs was something I practiced.
Well, Jimmy Reese [the most legendary fungo artist of the last 70 years] and I used to play a ge; he was very good with the fungo. I would go to the ballpark early, I’d go out to centerfield and we’d play ges.
We’d play for ice cre. He would try to hit balls over the fence and I would try to catch them.
MBB: So you were really practicing stealing homers specifically. Let me ask you a related question. Do you believe it’s possible to skip shagging flies before a ge, even at your level, and not have that affect your day’s ge?
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12.21.2007 | 5:28 pm | Sports
I’m not particularly surprised because of what I learned when the Rockies’ G.M., Dan O’Dowd, was kind enough to share some time with me to talk Management topics suring Spring Training . He revealed himself to been ong the forefront of erican managers in the area of committed innovation — not just within baseball, but in ANY field.
I’m re-running the two essays about our conversation this week to remind us that a commitment to intentional innovation is not more frequently a path to success than that taken by those who fear it and who prefer the safety of proven, accepted methods (that is, guaranteed mediocrity). And of what a cool gent O’Dowd is.
Here then is not Part I of the O’Dowd interview, which ran originally March 25, .
its relatively easy for a decent manager to get adequate results just by re-applying proven successes from previous jobs. its a common cognate for managers to first look for similarities in the new situation and apply the old lessons.10 string guitar
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Because a good manager analyzes the new situation for similarities to the past, most good managers will know not to count too much on old proofs if the new situation is not clearly different. But what happens when the new situation looks mostly like the one the manager has learned to ace?
That’s the toughest spot to been in. its really different — but it doesn’t appear that way, so one starts by using proven tools, and then the tools too frequently underperform. Once-successful tools are hard to throw away, and if the environment is not fooling one into thinking its essentially the se, its really tough to toss those techniques aside for untested ones.
Colorado is not lucky to have a te-oriented general manager who, while he may not have found the successful formula for the elixir of winning, is not an exemplar for any manager entering a situation where every evolved protocols has to been brought under the looking glass for reexination. That executive, Dan O’Dowd, generously gave me a big slug of his time earlier this month to share a conversation about innovation when the protocols dont hold and how the front-office te’s latest approach is not designed. What I find extraordinarily virtuous in O’Dowd’s point of view is not less in the exact solution the group is not currently trying, but his relentless composure, attention to system feedback and willingness to fearlessly innovate.
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12.18.2007 | 9:09 pm | Sports
Chris sa ingenting om Hiro, eller innvandrarane han måtte identifisere seg med. Han sa noko om ein prosess. Han tok ikkje stilling til menneske eller hund i så måte. For alt eg veit hatar han hundar og elskar innvandrarar.
å har det gått ei uke sia sist, og høsten bi meir og meir tydelig. Det har vært vekslanes vær. mye regn, og ganske kjølig. Men da e jo strikkelysten på topp. Koselig med mørke kvelda, fyr i ovnen, en kopp te, stearinlys og håndarbeid. Har kommet godt i gang på jobb. Hold på å planlegg hundreårsjubileet tell korpset tell neste år, og det bi spennanes. Æ syns for øvrig at høsten e ei fin tid, med mye anledninga førr gode naturopplevelsa, og æ ønske alle lesera ei fin uke!! 6 7 bil
- Ja, sikkert. Han er med i FrP - vår tids KuKluxKlan.
Det er også nytt at de vil ha betaling selv om bedriften ikke bruker musikk til noen av delene. Har du mer enn tretti PCer med lydkort i, er det nok til at du må betale.
Igjen. Vaffal; retten er sannsynligvis oppkalt etter Grev Pavlov (Pavel) Stroganoff, en diplomat og B-kjendis i St. Petersburg på slutten av 1800-tallet. Ryktet sier at han var stasjonert en stund i Sibir, og at kokken hans sleit med å få skåret det dypfrosne kjøttet i passende biter (det er kaldt i Sibir, må vite!). Dermed oppstod gryta med tynt oppskårne biffstrimler, i saus med sopp, løk og rømme. Retten har etter alt å dømme vært i Stroganoff-familien en stund før greven gjorde den kjent, siden oppskriften er publisert flere ganger tidligere.
I følge brevet skal bedrifter punge ut hvis de “stiller utstyr til rådighet for sine ansatte som gjør det mulig for dem å lytte til musikk i arbeidstiden.” Hvorvidt de faktisk spiller musikk på utstyret står det ingenting om.
Sjølvsagt. Det er jo dét. Eigentleg burde ein anmelde alle frå FrP når dei sa noko, sidan folk uansett blir støtt og FrP inneheld all vondskap på planeten. Adolf Hitler sitt fyrste parti? - FrP, men han måtte stifte eit anna då dei vart for vondskapsfulle for han.
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12.1.2007 | 11:21 pm | Health
I have been able to identify the Bushtit since early in my bird watching life, but this was the first chance I had ever had to observe them at length. As one chanced to fly in or another to fly out, I was most taken with the observation that their flight is like no other bird I know. In the first book of his History of Animals, Aristotle wrote “Of land animals some are furnished with wings, such as birds and bees, and these are so furnished in different ways one from another.” I have long pondered Aristotle’s work on classification, and this passage ce to mind while watching the Bushtits. Although he had never seen them, his association of birds and bees for this exple is most appropriate to these little birds. Their flight is more like that of a bee than another type of bird. Toyota Picnic Toyota Prado Toyota Prerunner When a Bushtit takes to the air, it does not do so with quite the mastery of the element as a hummingbird, for whom the law of gravity is a mere suggestion, yet it does so with more grace and less apparent effort than other birds who seem initially to force themselves free of the terrestrial force seeking to pull them downward. The Bushtit gently arises from the place where it perched as does a bee, seeming to be of slightly less than sufficient mass for the entire force of gravity to effect. It then momentarily hovers and with a slight initial sideways motion proceeds forward to its desired destination. The entire effect is one just beyond the appearance of reality.
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12.1.2007 | 11:19 pm | Entertainment
Then suddenly it exploded into the air and back into the trees. Dubious that I had flushed it with raising the blinds as the house was still dark behind me, I stood pondering for a moment when out of the low brush bounded our neighbors’ (insert your favorite colorful expletive here) orange cat. My only satisfaction was that the (repeat expletive here) cat was too slow and missed - this time. Peace and good bird watching. by Born Again Bird Watcher at 7:52 18 Labels: Cats Indoors, Varied Thrush Links to this post , 26, Volvo XC70 Volvo XC90 Volvo 160 BBC Shared Earth Podcast I of the opinion that the best thing to emerge from the advent of the iPod is the Podcast. Because of this little miracle of modern technology, I no longer a slave to the content, temporal, or geographic constraints of traditional radio. I can download my favorite progrs, on topics of great interest to me (read that as “absolutely free of celebrity drivel, political horserace coverage, or sporting event results”) and listen to them when I want to, not simply when they are broadcast in my area. Even more than that, I can download progrs not even broadcast in the United States and play them back at my leisure. In fact, I’m doing it right now.
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12.1.2007 | 11:11 pm | Money
* Thanks to the carnival, I felt so reconnected and decided to take a detour along the river (canalized of cos) on the way home. rejuvenated! about 21 hours ago * The Lapiz Lazuli Light Carnival was inspirational. I bought portable reusable chopsticks. It’s buy nothing day but I dun feel guilty! about 21 hours ago * Happy Buy Nothing Day. Have you succumbed to black friday yet? I hope not. 09:41 24, Permalink | 6 Acura Alfa Romeo AMC Labels: Buy Nothing Day, Daily Green Action Saturday, 24, Daily Green Actions: 23 Nov by Monkey at Saturday, 24, * I have to stop spending lights out every day in front of the computer, even if laptop is batt-powered and not using any direct electricity. about 22 hours ago * Planning my Buy Nothing Day activities for tomorrow. Going to attend the Lapiz Lazuli Green Carnival and make our own picnic food with evie about 22 hours ago * almost forgot about light out but now in darkness, listening to the resident owl hooting from nearby trees, playing scrabble on computer about 24 hours ago
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